Carol McGury serves as executive vice president, Event and Education Services of SmithBucklin, the association management and services company more organizations turn to than any other.
She oversees the Event Services team and all of the company’s convention, trade show and event management service offerings, and is charged with upholding and improving SmithBucklin’s high standard of productivity and performance, and leveraging the company’s unmatched purchasing power. In addition, she oversees the Education & Learning Services team that provides the resources and capabilities needed to manage new product/program development, education strategy and planning, content management and delivery, and program evaluation.
The client organizations’ events the team serves have regularly been named to the Trade Show Executive Gold 100 List, the Trade Show News Network’s Top 50 Fastest-Growing Trade Shows List and the Trade Show News Network’s Top 250 Trade Shows List. SmithBucklin also was named by Trade Show Executive as one of the “Companies to Watch in 2016.” Carol was inducted in the BizBash Hall of Fame in 2016.
Carol joined SmithBucklin in 1988 and during her tenure has served all three SmithBucklin industry practices (Business + Trade, Healthcare + Scientific, and Technology). She has served as chief staff executive of the Independent Oracle Users Group, SHARE (an IBM Users Group), the Joint Users of Siemens Technology (JUST-US) and several other technology associations focused on HP, Microsoft and CA user communities. She also served as the strategic account director for PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation), supporting its global event strategy and expanded North American Community Event.
As a career mentor and coach, she has dedicated herself to developing SmithBucklin talent at all levels. Carol’s broad association experience, passion for working with volunteer-driven organizations, and her strong business acumen and relationship management skills have helped develop SmithBucklin’s expertise in growing and launching client organizations.
Carol serves as Chair-Elect on the PCMA Education Foundation. She also serves on the Marriott Hotel Advisory Board and Anaheim Advisory Board, and she is co-chair of INCON (an international partnership of association and event management companies).
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications with a minor in business from St. Xavier University and a master’s degree in public service administration from DePaul University. She is also a graduate of SmithBucklin’s Leadership Learning Forum.